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DOC.027
Studio Lorelle. Lempicka in close-up

Circa 1928
B & W print on paper
27,8 x 18,7 cm
11 x 7 3/8 in
Studio Lorelle (stamp bottom right)

 

Collections

1972 - Private collection - France

 

Exhibitions

1997 - Hiroshima Museum of Arts. Tamara de Lempicka
          Tokyo-Hiroshima, Japan

 

Bibliography

NERET, Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980
          Benedikt Taschen Verlag Gmbh, Cologne, 1993
BLONDEL A. & HIROHI U., Tamara de Lempicka
          Brain Trust. Tokyo, 1997

 

History

 
Images of TAMARA
Biography, Psychology

Never had an artist been so preoccupied with her own image as Lempicka: she herself did many self-portraits, and, more especially, spent hours to sitting for photographers, where she would take on the attitude of a professional model. Her long stay in Hollywood, and all her efforts to penetrate the movie world, suggest that she longed to be in the "spotlight". Her "screen test" - with the newsreel producers Pathé in 1932 - shows a supremely self-assured image of her coming down the staircase of her rue Méchain studio, flourishing a seemingly endless cigarette-holder.

 
 -1928
Chronology

Tamara and Tadeusz were divorced (against the artist's wishes) and the portrait she had begun to paint of her husband (cat.38) was never finished. She made the acquaintance of Dr Pierre Boucard, who commissioned several portraits. Working increasingly hard, she began to enjoy financial success, spending long periods in Cannes.

 

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